McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Databases and Data Warehouses
Copyright © 2011 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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SECTION 6.1
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DATABASE FUNDAMENTALS
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ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION
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• Information is everywhere in an organization
• Employees must be able to obtain and analyze the
many different levels, formats, and granularities of
organizational information to make decisions
• Successfully collecting, compiling, sorting, and
analyzing information can provide tremendous insight
into how an organization is performing
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ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION
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THE VALUE OF TRANSACTIONAL
AND ANALYTICAL INFORMATION
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THE VALUE OF TIMELY
INFORMATION
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• Real-time information
• Real-time system
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THE VALUE OF QUALITY INFORMATION
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• Accuracy
• Completeness
• Consistency
• Uniqueness
• Timeliness
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UNDERSTANDING THE COSTS OF
POOR INFORMATION
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• Inability to accurately track customers
• Difficulty identifying valuable customers
• Inability to identify selling opportunities
• Marketing to nonexistent customers
• Difficulty tracking revenue
• Inability to build strong customer relationships
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UNDERSTANDING THE BENEFITS OF
GOOD INFORMATION
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• Improve the chances of making a good decision
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RELATIONAL DATABASE
RELATIONAL DATABASE
FUNDAMENTALS
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• Relational database model
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RECORDS, FIELDS, AND TABLES
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• Entity (object, record)
• Attribute (field, column)
• Table (class)
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KEYS AND RELATIONSHIPS
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• Relationship
• Primary key
• Foreign key
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CONSTRAINTS
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• Validation rule
• Referential integrity
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RELATIONAL DATABASE
ADVANTAGES
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• Increased flexibility
• Increased scalability and performance
• Reduced information redundancy
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RELATIONAL DATABASE
ADVANTAGES
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• Increased flexibility
• Increased scalability and performance
• Reduced information redundancy
• Increased information integrity (quality)
• Increased information security
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DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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DBMS
DDL
DML
DQL
Structured Query
Language
User Tables
Data
Dictionary
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
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DATA-DRIVEN WEBSITES
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DATA-DRIVEN WEBSITE
BUSINESS ADVANTAGES
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• Content Management
• Future Expandability
• Minimize Human Error
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DATA-DRIVEN WEBSITE
BUSINESS ADVANTAGES
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• Content Management
• Future Expandability
• Minimize Human Error
• Cut Production and Update Costs
• Efficient
• Stability
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SECTION 6.2
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DATA WAREHOUSE
FUNDAMENTALS
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DATA WAREHOUSE FUNDAMENTALS
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• Data warehouse
• Data mart
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EXTRACTION, TRANSFORMATION, AND
LOADING (ETL)
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INFORMATION CLEANSING OR
SCRUBBING
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MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS
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• In a data warehouse and data mart, information is
multidimensional, it contains layers of columns and
rows
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DATA MINING AND BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE
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• Data-mining tools helps users uncover business
intelligence
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